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gagel, then add new yeast, then wrap it up that it I5nf'l^ !• 

 may rise well, then add helenium, and wormwood, and 

 betony, and marche, and ontre ; give the man this to 

 drink. 



2. Work together beewort, for a lung wound, and that 

 bonewort which hath bunches of floAvers ; pound the 

 two worts, boil in butter. A drink for lung disease ; 

 take leaves of hindheal, and hind berries, or raspberries, 

 and garclife, or agrimony, and leaves of the hip 

 bramble, or dogrose; boil them in wort of beer; make 

 the man drink. 



3. For lung disease ; leaves of hind berries, or rasp' 

 berries, a spike of a reed, red hove, bishopwort, dol- 

 hrune, nepeta ; let the man boil all these worts in clean 

 water, and drink. For lung disease, work a salve in 

 butter, and take the same in milk ; take brownwoii, 

 meadwort, birch lichen, nepeta, garclife, or agrimony. 

 For lung disease ; brown wort, knee holly, betony, wild 

 marche, sorrel, everfern, oakum (ashes), garclife, the 

 two brambles, the dogrose and blackberry, wowelle, 

 woad ; work these into a drink and into a salve. Take 

 everfern, pound it, boil it in butter, put "the salve" 

 into boiled goats milk, and let the man take it at 

 night fasting, and on the top of that his meat. A 

 drink for a dry lung ; pound to dust rind of holly and 

 cinqfoil, dill and radish, and pour them all over with 

 ale ; give the man that to drink frequently. Again, 

 a drink ; let him drink in ale, marrubium and betony, 

 marche, rue, rind of crab apple tree, sloe thorn rind. 

 A brewit for lung disease ; ontre, helenium, marrubium, 

 wenwort, that namely which is bulbed, rue, marche, 

 pepper, honey. For a dry lung ; some root of wallwort, 

 and of fleath Wort, Iborehouud, seed of dill ; seethe these 

 in butter, give the brewit to the man to eat cold, in 

 the morning and at night, and di'ess his meat with 

 oil. Again, take rind of alder, seethe in water till a 

 third part of the water be boiled away, then give the 



